o consider myself to be an equal opportunity coder. I like investigating different tools built in different languages to solve different types of problems. Recently at work I had the opportunity to play around with [elasticsearch](http://www.elasticsearch.org). Elasticsearch brings the whole distributed / non relational data craze to the world of search. It is actually a rather impressive piece of tech. If you are at all interested in search as a problem, I recommend you give it a look. In any event, I need to get some data into the search engine to play around with. Where could I get a good deal of data without doing the heavy lifting myself? Twitter! Sure the twitter activity stream.

I'm a software developer and system architect working at help.com. Most of my day is spent working with Javascript & Node.js. I've also done a good deal of web and print design work in my day. I created this space to share my experiences with the world and hopefully learn something in the process.

This Space

Here you will find my ramblings and rants about web development. My focus is around JavaScript( MooTools, Sencha, NodeJS ), Python & Django, HTML & CSS. Most things here target a wide range of skill levels - from the very simple to the moderately complicated. You may also find the occasionaly personal ranting and I may stand on a soap box from time to time.